5 million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals

[tekisui]

Iraq's anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statistics, urging the government, parliament, and NGOs to be in constant contact with Iraq's parentless children.

"The government should set up an institutional or legislative program to help the Iraqi orphans. Iraqi is an oil-rich country and it is not acceptable that its orphans remain groaning in this tragedy," the anti-corruption board chief, Moussa Faraj, said during a conference in Baghdad dedicated to orphans in Iraq.

"The board on its own cannot meet the Iraqi orphans' needs, but there should be an organization or even a ministry to provide care for orphans," he said.

The Iraqi parliament's women & family committee had proposed a draft law to set up a fund for the orphans.

more at link: http://www.iraqupdates.com/p_articles.php/article/25097

[flashl]

1. More 'war' casualties.

[donsu]

2. america will pay for the neo con's neglect of children

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[acmavm]

3. And they will grow up to hate America. Not just those responsible for their

parent's deaths, all of us.

[tekisui]

4. Tomorrow's terrorists

[fascisthunter]

6. Bush is Creating More Enemies

for the military industrial complex. Must keep investors fat and happy!

[Joanne98]

5. That's capitalism!

[fascisthunter]

7. Bush Would Like to Wish Them Happy Holidays

I'm sure others would too.

[autorank]

8. That's like "60 million U.S. orphans, anti corruption board reveals"

There are 27 milion people in Iraq - 5 million orphans is 19% of the total population.

What an outcome. I'm aware of the 1.1 million dead civilians...due to the disruption that
this illegal war caused. BUT this many orphans.

Wonder what the war supporters would say about this?

Wonder what the war funders would say about this?

[Glimmer of Hope]

9. My god. Where are they? How do they live?

[Hydra]

11. They mostly don't survive

and those that do would probably have been better off dead.

:mad:

It never ceases to piss me off that I have to tell people that this is what wars do- and then they gleefully insist that we make "noble war" and that everything will be fine afterward.

It NEVER is.

[TahitiNut]

10. That would amount to 20% (ONE-FIFTH!) of their entire population.

Color me skeptical. :eyes:

[The Magistrate]

12. Indeed, Sir, It Sounds A Tad Off To Me

[Karenina]

13. Surely you DO recall

back in the day BEFORE the U.S. invaded, that we were all screaming about nearly HALF of the Iraqi population being minors and what would happen to them... THINK OF THE CHILDREN!